MONDAY — 18-Sep
Q. Who
is the only pitcher with a World Series game victory in three separate decades?
Hint: #1
He pitched a record 3,948 innings in the majors without allowing a grand
slam.
Hint: #2
He threw the first shutout against the Seattle Pilots and was the first
pitcher to no-hit the newly-relocated Oakland A’s.
- Ans. Won
G 2 1966; G 1 1970; G 2 1971; & G 3 1983.
- #1 He’s
happy to talk with anyone about it, but he’s unlikely to mention this.
- #2 ShO
of SEP 07-Jun-1969. No-hit the A’s 13-Aug-1969.
FCR - Robert
Osman, Great Neck, New York
Incorrect guesses: Gary Bell, Don Sutton, Roger Clemens, Felix
Hernandez Warren Spahn
TUESDAY —— 19-Sep
Q. Which one-time Anaheim Angel earned the
most career MVP vote shares among those who never won a MVP award?
Hint: #1 He holds
the major league career record for most sacrifice flies.
Hint: #2 He never
had a season with more than thirty five home runs, yet his career home run
total is more than those of Willie Stargell, Chipper Jones or Lou Gehrig.
A. EDDIE MURRAY [SABR Bio]
- Ans. He
garnered MVP consideration 8 times with BAL and once with LAD but his best
finishes were as runner-up in 1982 & 1983. Murray appeared in 46 games with ANA during his
final season in 1997.
- #1 Sac flies = 128. His longtime Orioles teammate & close
friend, Cal Ripken, is a very close career 2nd w/127.
- #2 Career HR = 504. Stargell ended w/475, Jones 468, Gehrig 493.
FCR - Anderson Adams, Peachtree Corners
Incorrect guesses: Tim
Salmon, Fred McGriff, Vladimir Guerrero, Reggie Jackson, Garrett Anderson
WEDNESDAY —— 20-Sep
Q. Whose record for stolen
bases in career World Series play did Lou Brock tie in 1968?
Hint: #1 Though he never
had a season with as many as 90 RBI, he finished with a career RBI total better
than the individual RBI totals of Hall of Famers Pie Traynor, Gil Hodges or Hank Greenberg.
Hint: #2 He is so
far ahead of the second place player for career sacrifice hits that it
looks like a misprint.
A. EDDIE COLLINS [SABR Bio]
- Ans. Each stole 14 WS SBs.
- #1 Final RBI total was 1,299 with his season
high of 86 in 1924. Traynor finished w/1,273
& Greenberg & Hodges, 1,274 each.
- #2 Collins has 512 sac H. The next closest Hall of Famer is
Willie Keeler w/366.
FCR - Jason Winston,
Riverside, California
Incorrect guesses: Ty
Cobb, Phil Rizzuto, Frankie Frisch, Pepper Martin
MIDWEEK BONUS —— 20-Sep
Q. Who is baseball's all-time leader in
outfield putouts?
Hint: #1
He was the first
player to post back-to-back 30/30 seasons.
Hint: #2
He drove in more than one hundred runs in eight straight seasons.
A. WILLIE MAYS [SABR Bio]
-
Ans. Outfield PO = 7,095
-
#1 In 1956, Mays had 36 HR & 40
SB. In ’57, it was 35 & 38. He missed doing it a 3rd
consecutive year by only one HR.
-
#2 From 1959 through 1966, Mays’s
RBI output exceeded 100 each season.
FCR - Joe
Cohen, Holden, Massachusetts
Incorrect guesses: Joe Carter, Chuck Klein, Hank Aaron
THURSDAY — 21-Sep
Q. In
2022, which one-time New York Met pitcher joined a “club” previously occupied
by only The Left Arm of God and The Freak?
Hint: #1
He was the first twenty-first century rookie pitcher to earn fifteen wins
in his team's first one hundred twenty-five games.
Hint: #2
He went second overall in the ML Draft the year he was chosen.
A. JUSTIN VERLANDER [B-R
Bio]
-
Ans. When Verlander won his 2nd
WS championship ring w/HOU in 2022, he became one of only 3 pitchers to own multiple…
A.) No-hitters; B.) Cy Young Awards; & C.) World Series Championship rings. To wit:
Pitcher No-hitters CYAs WS
Koufax 30-Jun-1962............... 1963.................... 1955
11-May-1963............. 1965.................... 1959
04-Jun-1964............... 1966.................... 1963
09-Sep-1965........................................... 1965
Lincecum 13-Jul-2013................ 2008.................... 2010
25-Jun-2014............... 2009.................... 2012
.............................................................. 2014
Verlander 12-Jun-2007............... 2011.................... 2017
07-May-2011............. 2019.................... 2022
01-Sep-2019............... 2022
-
#1 Verlander won his 15th
G in the DET’s 125th G in 2006.
(He was 0-2 in his cup of coffee sojourn in 2005.)
-
#2 In the 1st Round of
the 2004 MLB June Amateur Draft, Verlander was the 2nd player
chosen, 1 behind Matt Bush.
FCR - Mike
Sparks, Sarasota
Incorrect guesses: Matt Harvey, Jacob deGrom
FRIDAY — 22-Sep
Q. Which
one-time Oakland A’s third base coach was the first player to hit two doubles
in a single inning of a World Series game?
Hint: #1
He is still the only player to hit a World Series home run for three
different teams.
Hint: #2
He won a Gold Glove Award in both leagues.
A. MATT WILLIAMS [Wiki Bio]
-
Ans. In the 3rd inning
of G 6 of the 2001 WS,
Williams was the 1st to get a H & the last to get a hit, both 2Bs. The 1st off Andy Pettitte, the 2nd
off Jay Witasick. Williams coached in OAK
2018-19.
-
#1 WS HR for SFG: 1989 G 3; for CLE: 1997 G 4; for ARI: 2001 G 2.
-
#2 Won GG w/SFG 1991, 93, 94
& w/CLE 1997.
FCR - Matt
Clairmont, New Minas, Nova Scotia
Incorrect guesses: Andy Pettitte, Sal Bando, Rickey Henderson,
Lonnie Smith, Don Baylor
SATURDAY — 23-Sep
Q. Who
was the first switch-hitter to hit at least one hundred home runs in each of the
American and National leagues?
Hint: #1
A major league Gold Glove Award winner, he led the Rookie Appalachian
League in errors.
Hint: #2
His was the only hit in J.R. Richard’s one-hitter in 1980.
A. REGGIE SMITH [SABR Bio]
-
Ans. Smith hit 149 HR in the AL 1966-’73. For 3 NL teams 1967-1982, he totaled 165 HR.
-
#1 In 66 G for the Wytheville
Twins in the Appalachian League in 1963, its first year of operation,
the 18-year-old Smith was charged with 41 E playing his original SS position. He won a GG as an outfielder for the reigning
AL champion, 1968 BOS.
-
#2 On 19-Apr-1980, HOU’s J.R. Richard
surrendered only 1 hit that day: Smith’s infield single in the 4th
inning.
FCR - Michael Schneider, Wilmington, Delaware
Incorrect guesses: Eddie Murray, Ken Singleton
WEEKEND BONUS — 23-Sep
Q. Since
pitcher Denny McLain’s remarkable 1968 season, which American Leaguer has tallied
the most pitching wins in one season?
Hint: #1
He once pitched a 1-0 shutout where his home run was the only run.
Hint: #2
He owns Mr. October’s most famous strikeout.
-
Ans. McLain won 31 G in ’68, the
most any AL pitcher had won since Lefty Grove’s 31 in ’31. Welch won 27 in 1990,
-
#1 The 1-0 shutout was on 17-Jun-1983. The losing P was Mario Soto.
-
#2 In the 9th inning
of G 2 of the 1978 WS, with 2 out, Welch did this.
FCR - Brian
Nunnally, Holly Springs, North Carolina
Incorrect guesses: Ron Guidry, Steve Carlton, Fergie Jenkins,
Luis Tiant, Justin Verlander
SUNDAY — 24-Sep
Q. Which player from Colombia has appeared in more
major league All-Star games and all other combined from his country?
Hint:
#1 He played in the World Series with
three different teams and was on the winning side in two.
Hint: #2 In the two Fall Classics his teams won he
played pivotal roles.
A. EDGAR RENTERIA [SABR Bio]
- Ans. His
ASG total is 5. All others have 3 total,
i.e., Julio Teheran 2; Jose Quintana 1. Renteria
leads his countrymates in games played, HR, SB, years played, runs, hits, RBI
& WAR.
- #1 Played
w/FLA in 1997; played w/STL in 2004; & played w/SFG in 2010.
- #2 Renteria
had a decent, yeomanlike season for BOS in 2005, but they traded him to ATL after just 1 year. In the 1997 WS, he had the winning hit in the
bottom of the 11th in G 7. In
2010, he was voted MVP of the WS.
FCR - Elliott
Frankfother, Rock Falls, Illinois
Incorrect
guesses:
WEEK’S
FINALE — 24-Sep
Q. Who was the first player to be lifted for a pinch-hitter
in All-Star play?
Hint:
#1 Among managers with at least 1,000
games managed, he owns the lowest career winning percentage.
Hint:
#2 Prior to his major league career, he had
played soccer professionally.
A. JIMMIE
WILSON
[SABR Bio]
- Ans. Wilson
was lifted for pinch hitter Lefty O’Doul in the 6th inning of the
initial Midsummer Classic in 1933. Wilson
made his 2nd & final All-Star appearance in 1935 and doubled off Mel Harder that day.
- #1 His
career managing averaging was .401, a mere 242 G under .500. He was player/manager for PHI 1934‑1938 who finished
last or next-to-last every year. He was
the Cubs’ manager 1941‑1944 and found out this team did better when he kept
himself in the dugout.
- #2 His
parents brought the Scottish tradition of soccer with them to the U.S. and
Wilson grew up playing both it and baseball.
He met & befriended Hall of Fame soccer player Dick Spalding, another
two-sport professional athlete. (Neither
Spalding nor Wilson founded sporting goods companies.)
FCR - Douglas
Greenwald, San Francisco
Incorrect
guesses:
WEEK’S THEME – Played in World Series in three different decades without playing for NYY in any of them
Player WS WS WS
Mays*........................... 1954...................... 1962................ 1973
Collins*......... 1910, 11, 13,
14,17, 19........ 1929................ 1930
Verlander.................... 2006...................... 2017................ 2022
Murray*....................... 1979...................... 1983................ 1995
Palmer*.................... 1966, 69................ 1970, 01............. 1983
Smith........................... 1967...................... 1977................ 1981
Williams...................... 1989...................... 1997................ 2001
Welch.......................... 1978................... 1981, 89............. 1990
Renteria...................... 1997...................... 2004................ 2010
Wilson......................... 1928................... 1930, 31............. 1940
*Hall
of Fame
1World
Series MVP
First
Correct Respondent identifying theme – Warren Kent, Whitehall, Michigan (after
Mays)
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Mon - Most
career wins for one franchise
Tue - Oriole statue at Camden Yards
- Orioles in the HOF
- Select members of the Orioles the last time
they played in a World Series
- something to do with the O's
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